Wipro v New South Wales: the re-enactment presumption

Wipro v NSW (2022) 110 NSWLR 520

Fifthly, the first defendant relies on the re-enactment presumption that “where the Parliament repeats words which have been judicially construed, it is taken to have intended the words to bear the meaning already ‘judicially attributed to (them)’” (Re Alcan Australia Ltd; Ex Parte Federation of Industrial, Manufacturing and Engineering Employees (1994) 181 CLR 96 , 106; [1994] HCA 34 at [20])

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